Data EngineerApply now »Date: Jul 16, 2024Location: Atlanta, GA, US, 30308Company: Norfolk Southern Corp.Requisition37660:B3 Data EngineerA resume helps you stand out to hiring managers and recruiters; your resume communicates your experience and your brand. While it is not required, we encourage you to include an up-to-date resume along with a completed job application to give you the best opportunity to be considered. A complete resume helps us to better understand your unique background, relevant experiences, and passions. We look forward to learning about you.Norfolk Southern offers a unique opportunity to be part of our proud legacy that spans nearly 200 years. We are a customer-centric, operations-driven team dedicated to advancing safety, serving communities, and driving innovation for tomorrow's rail. As part of Norfolk Southern, you’ll join a collaborative team where there are opportunities for growth across the organization. We are building a culture where everyone can thrive by owning and driving exceptional results, being humble and leading with trust, serving our customers with excellence, and collaborating and coaching to win.The Intermodal & Automotive (I&AU) division constitutes 62% of NS’ volume and 34% of revenue for a Fortune 500 company. Norfolk Southern has the largest intermodal network in the Eastern United States. Our team of Data engineers provide clean data sets to end users, modeling data in a way that empowers end users to answer their own questions, providing critical support for both tactical and strategic decision makers.Primary Purpose:•Develop & maintain information flows, storage, and self-service mechanisms to provide Data to customers throughout the Intermodal & Automotive business groups.•Transforms, tests, deploys, and documents data to ensure a “One Source of Truth” that enables operational decision-making.•Ensures data governance guidelines and best practices are followed.Principal Duties:•Own the provision of clean, on-time datasets that are ready for analysis.•Apply software engineering best practices such as version control, testing, and continuous integration to data management code.•Maintain data dictionaries with descriptives.•Improve our mechanisms for highly available data and infrastructure to provide uninterrupted, on-time business decisions.•Evaluate existing database content and identify opportunities for enhancement.•Build new infrastructure for information storage on various DBMS platforms.•Design data extraction, transformation, and loading routines.•Compile small-to-large data sets to drive direct, meaningful actions on the analysis of raw data.•Engage with internal customers to develop actionable insights that are aligned with strategic goals.•Coordinate with a variety of IT infrastructure teams to implement solutions.•Assist manager & teammates on group projects and other administrative needs.Job Related Experience:Minimum Level: 2 yearsPreferred Level: 3-5 yearsEducation:Preferred Level: Bachelor’s Degree (BS)Preferred Majors:Business DataBusiness IntelligenceComputer ScienceData ScienceDatabase ManagementInformation SystemsInformation TechnologySoftware EngineeringTechnical Skills:Structured Query Language (SQL)Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, IBM DB2SSIS, SSAS, MDXPythonAlteryxTableauJIRAMicrosoft OfficeSkills and Abilities:Data ManagementStatistical TechniquesMachine LearningAnalytical ThinkingCustomer ServiceTime ManagementWritten & Verbal CommunicationLeadershipTeamworkCareer Path:Future Jobs:Senior Data EngineerHigher-level IT positionsSenior Market ManagerGroup Manager, MarketingOperations ManagerWork Conditions:Environment: OfficeShift Work: NoOn-Call: NoWeekend Work: OccasionalTravel Required: 0-2 Days per MonthThis position has a hybrid work schedule, requiring 40% of time in office.Company OverviewSince 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting .At Norfolk Southern, we believe in celebrating our individuality. By leveraging the unique backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees, we can create a culture of innovation, respect, and inclusion. We know that employees thrive in a workplace where differing viewpoints, ideas, and experiences are freely shared and valued. As such, we encourage all employees to contribute their distinctive skills and capabilities to our organization.Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Together, we power progress.